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Recent Examples of exponent That would have given him more complicated Taylor approximations, with exponents greater than 2. Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025 Finding Wiggle Room There is no fast, general purpose method for finding the minima of functions raised to high exponents. Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025 Specifically, your function has to be a polynomial — a combination of variables raised to whole-number exponents and multiplied by coefficients. Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2025 He’s played by the real-life former major-league pitcher Bill (Spaceman) Lee, an eephus exponent with a reputation as a baseball eccentric. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exponent
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    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 July 2025
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    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 30 June 2025
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  • Their numbers climb to about 300% of Medicare when the care given by off-site practitioners, which are cheaper, are taken out.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 3 July 2025
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    Tom Shattuck, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2025
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    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
  • No serious advocate for diversity programs argues against hiring the best candidate for the job.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 July 2025
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  • Her expertise as the Senate’s interpreter of arcane chamber rules cannot be easily replaced with a party loyalist, and her day-to-day duties are nonpartisan in nature, even if she was appointed in 2012 by then-Democratic Leader Harry Reid.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2025
  • The financial advisor of the future is also a data interpreter.
    Swati Deepak Kumar, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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  • Longoria has been a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party and endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris for the 2024 election.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 1 July 2025
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“Exponent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exponent. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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